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Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:19:11 GMT
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Matthew Bates wrote:

Now I'm debating whether I should do some development on it myself or let
someone else do it or open it up for collaborative development.

I have been able to compile it but only with an older version of Visual C++
(version 4.0). Plus I have discovered that some of the source to the help system
is missing so I had to do some hacking to get it to build and the help still
isn't quite working right.

Matt

For me, the great think about Track Designer is that it runs just fine under the
Wine Windows emulator. I've used it that way under my X86-64 Linux machine for
several layouts, including working on NALUG layouts for train shows. I've never
been able to get software from LEGO to run that way. MLCAD used to, but doesn't
anymore, unfortunately, so I've been using LeoCAD.

Matt, would you be willing to let someone try to split out the OS-dependent parts,
so that ports to other platforms are easier? I've been programming for nearly 30
years, so that's something I can likely do. I haven't really done any GUI work,
but I might be able to interest a friend of mine in working with me to do a
Linux version. Given a Linux version, versions for MacOS and the BSDs, Solaris,
etc. should be fairly straightforward.

-Chris Gray



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  Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
 
(...) Given the reports that its using MFC, it would be easier to rewrite a new version from scratch than to port the existing one. (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
 
(...) Now I'm debating whether I should do some development on it myself or let someone else do it or open it up for collaborative development. I have been able to compile it but only with an older version of Visual C++ (version 4.0). Plus I have (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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